Month: October 2025

Bluesky posts on gerrymandering in Utah

🚨BREAKING: Republicans in Utah advanced a new congressional map favored to help their party retain total political control in the Beehive State. http://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-10-06T16:14:23.139Z

If at first cheating doesn't work, try cheating another way. 😡#ProudBlue

— ElizabethC (@econklin44.bsky.social) 2025-09-22T22:05:45.297Z

Fan-fucking-tastic!Utah Supreme Court rejects emergency stay in redistricting case, Utah legislature must draw new maps share.google/8RHTt1i18KVp…

— Jamie Carter (@jctheresistance.demcast.com) 2025-09-16T00:06:56.843Z

Thomas Pynchon’s “Low-lands”

I have been thinking about Thomas Pynchon a lot recently since his new novel will be released on Tuesday, October 7th,

Here are the front and back covers of a literary magazine, New World Writing, from 1960 that included Pynchon’s “Low-lands”. The story was later included in his 1984 collection Slow Learner. The story includes the character Pig Bodine who also appears in Pynchon’s novels V. and Gravity’s Rainbow.

The Trump administration violates the Hatch act with web pages and out of office messages about the shutdown

They are lying too.

Go to hud.gov and use the website feedback button to tell them the website is for all Americans and to take down this partisan propaganda. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

— DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T07:52:02.596Z

Whoa! Employees at the SBA received a template for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.🚨 A clear violation of the Hatch Act

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-10-02T14:02:54.319Z

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.Version of original on left, updated on right:

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T13:46:32.418Z
https://bsky.app/profile/costasamaras.com/post/3m26fzj65pk2x

Coal is dying

🧵Coal in the US was mostly dying because of cheap natural gas beginning in the 2000s. Then cheap renewables began to clobber it in the 2010s. It is a filthy power source and horrible emitter of greenhouse gases. There is zero economic justification for this & it will amount to corporate welfare.

— DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) 2025-09-29T15:16:07.943Z

👇World's fifth largest economy quits #coal:www.latimes.com/environment/…

— John Vaillant (@johnvaillant.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T14:41:33.497Z

"Government shouldn't pick winners and losers" goes out the window when they become one of the losers.

— David Roberts (@volts.wtf) 2025-10-05T23:36:09.516Z